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fecrfiises ai Senier Su^er, 



BOWDOIN COLLEGE, JULY 28, 1846. 



" Come let us twine a glorious wreath 
O'er the heart's chosen bower, 
And kindly sit its shade beneath 
To spend this parting hour." 


#raikm — Joseph Willard Ellis. 



— Walpurgisnacht— By T. H. Talbot. 

TUNE (" CRAMBAMBUL1.") 

Oft have we met as boys before, 

To bless with joy time's speedy car, 
That on the path of classic lore 

Has brought us through each college year. 
Then classmates free 
We'll joyful be ; 
With hearts of glee 
We'll sail life's sea. 



4t length we've passed our boyhood's age, 

When others set our tasks by rule ; 
To-night we step on manhood's stage, 
Free students in the world's wide school. 

Then classmates free, &c. 

Say not, in books we'll plod no more ; 

Say not, our learning day is done ; 
Say not, our student's time is o'er ; 

Our education's just begun. 

Then classmates free, &c. 

The truth demands us for her sons ; 

The trampled right calls us to raise 
Our voice, and be her champions 

Through weal or wo, through blame or praise. 

Then classmates free, &c. 

Our college life to us is dead, — 

It lives on memory's page alone ; 
Its joys, its ills — they all have fled ; 

Its lights and shades, they all are gone. 

Then classmates free, &c. 

Let memory throw around the past 
Her brightest gauze of happy hue ; 

Let friendship's light o'er it be cast, 
Whene'er its scenes return to view. 

Then classmates free, &c. 



ItfCm — Frederic D. Sewall. 



#b£ — By F. D. Sewall. 

AIR (" BONNIE BOAT.") 

Our voices raise, and sing the praise 

Of this glad scene to-night, 
For friendship's chains, with brothers true 

Is seen more fair and bright. 
The hours that kindness treasures here 

Shall live in memory long ; 
While every heart shall catch the strain 

Of this our parting song. 

[Chorus.] And kindly thus shall brothers know 
True hearts will joyous be, 
Where notes of love responsive rise 
In hours of social glee. 

Now, classmates, ere we separate, 

Let's join each hand in hand, 
And with a bond unite all hearts 

Of this our noble band. 
And when the light of other days 

Recalls departed joys, 
Then memory'll brood o'er those loved forms, 

That distance ne'er destroys. 

[Chorus.] And kindly thus shall brothers know, &c. 



MSTOTTOS. 



f RxtlXlQ #ut— By E. B. Webb. 

AIR ("AULD LANG SYNE.") 

Full oft we've met with social glee 

And spent the festive hour ; 
And problems solved, and sage debate 

Have told of minds of power. 



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The days how few ! the years how short ! 

Our College life is o'er : 
These quiet walks, these arching groves 

Shall welcome us no more. 

This is a strange and feeling hour 

Of Life's Protean scene ; 
Glad light and shade are mingling here, 
The Future — Past between. 

When time has rolled long years away, 

And borne us on our ways, 
Remembrance then shall bring us back 
To these bright College days. 

How joyous then, care-worn and faint, 

To grasp a classmate's hand, — 
To meet once more in memory's bower, 
This noble happy band. 

Let him who first ascends the skies 
Watch round those left behind ; 
In whispers oft with kindly words 
Address the conscious mind. 

And may the last, gray haired and old, 

From earthly pleasures riven, 
With joyous soul mount up to meet 
His classmates all in heaven. 

Now let each heart be strong, tho' high 

The struggling bosom swell : — 
Great God, now bless each classmate dear, 
As falls this last Farewell. 



The first Class Meeting after Graduation 

was held (in accordance with a vote passed at the senior 
supper, July 28, 1846), at the Tontine Hotel, in Brunswick, 
Sept. 4, 1849, at 9^ o'clock P. m. 

Present, Crosby, Deane, Ellis, Orr, Osgood, Pickard, 
Sewall, Snow, Spofford, Upham and Waterman, and, in the 
language of Secretary Pickard, " Webb, constructively, as 
he came the next day." 

Snow (can we, looking back, now speak of him as " old'''' 
Snow ?) was chosen Chairman, and Pickard Secretary. 

A class report was read by the Secretary, accompanied 
by running comments and scraps of information from those 
present, as the several names were called. 

Two of our members, Crosby and Chamberlain, were 
reported as married ; and of two, Hanscom and Southworth, 
came the sad announcement that they had obeyed the 
inevitable summons awaiting us all, the former having died 
on the 22d of Aug., 1847, the latter on the 15th of June, 1849. 

Thus, early in the race upon which they had both entered 
with high and noble aspirations, they were taken from earth, 
and changed " this mortal " for immortality. 

The meeting was an exceedingly pleasant one, and though 
tinged with sadness at the loss of our comrades, whose early 
departure we all sincerely mourned, it revived our interest in 
everything pertaining to the class and to each member of it. 

The prospects, more than hinted at, of additional mar- 
riages at no distant day, and the probabilities of other 
additions to the number of those bearing the names of 
sundry classmates, having been humorously discussed and 
considered, it was unanimously Voted, " That a silver goblet 
be presented to the first legitimate male child born to any 
member of the class." 



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A Committee, consisting of Sewall, Pickard and Crosby, 
was chosen, to procure the goblet, have an appropriate 
inscription upon it, and present it to the rightful claim- 
ant at the proper time. 

With a health to the absent living classmates, and a 
silent pledge to the memory of the deceased, we then 
adjourned, to meet at Commencement in 1856. 



The next meeting (instead of being held according to 
adjournment) was in response to the following circular, a 
printed copy of which was sent to each classmate whose 
post office address could be ascertained : 

Bowdoin College, Aug. 1852. 

Bear Sir : — You have already learned that the coming 
Commencement at "Old Bowdoin" is to be a " glorious, 
an immortal " Commencement ; to be " celebrated with 
thanksgiving, with festivity, with bonfires and illumina- 
tions." 

The class of 1846 will hold a special meeting Tuesday 
evening, Aug. 31st, at the Tontine Hotel. Your personal 
attendance is solicited. To " cut " this meeting would be 
the " most unkindest cut of all." 

N. B. At the meeting of the class in 1849, a silver 
goblet was voted to the first " legitimate male child of the 
class ; " at the meeting herein called, and in accordance 
with that vote, the goblet is to be presented, with appropriate 
ceremonies, to the son of Stephen Abbott Holt. 

THOS. H. TALBOT, Chairman. 

Jos. C. Pickaed, Secretary. 

If you cannot come, please send a letter and a " sentiment." 
Address the Secretary, who will be in Bangor until 
Monday, Aug. 30. 



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This meeting was held at the Tontine Hotel, Brunswick, 
Tuesday evening, Aug. 31, 1852. 

There were present Crosby, Ellis, Haskell, Holt, Morse, 
Orr, Osgood, Perry, Pickard, Pierce, Sewall, Shepley, 
(" Len."), Talbot, Waterman, Webb, and our quondam 
classmate, " Jem." Shepley. 

The silver goblet had been fairly won, and was presented 
with all becoming ceremony to the infant son of Holt, the 
father and mother both being presem. 

The presentation speech was admirably made by Crosby, 
and Holt, Sr., happily responded in behalf of the youthful 
recipient and his parents. 

The goblet was of original form, very attractive in 
appearance, and bore the following inscriptions : 

Henrico Culler, St ephani- Abbott Holt JVio, maximo natu, hocce poculum ab iis 

in artibus inialis Coll. Bowd. Anno Salutis MDCCCXLVI, 

muneri datum est. 

u Ov Kadaga) Kotdagov eqxxTTTeodat, ov &eiimttov." 

The quotation from Plato being quite as much because 
it was from Plato, and in reference to the father's well known 
fondness for that ancient philosopher, as on account of its 
special adaptation to the case. After the presentation, 
supper was served and partaken of very heartily and cheerily. 
The class then resolved itself into a committee of the whole, 
and the greater part of the night was spent in social 
enjoyment, reading letters from absentees, and the relation 
by those present of their own personal experiences since 
leaving College. 

The Chairman and Secretary were appointed a standing 
committee and authorized to call future meetings, assess 



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taxes for expenses and attend to other matters incident to 
their office. 

Adjourned to meet again at Commencement in 1856. 



For some reason, now forgotten if ever known, no 
formal meeting was had at that time. A few of the class 
attended Commencement, and so were brought together 
and interchanged expeaignces and indulged in regrets that 
no more were there ; brft no record has been preserved of 
anything then done or information then obtained. 



The next regular meeting was held, pursuant to the vote 
passed at our last College meeting in 1846 (to meet at the 
end of twenty years from the time of graduating), at 
Commencement in 1866. 

Tuesday afternoon, July 31st, of that year, Fogg, Haskell, 
Jackson, Perry, Pickard, Rice, Sewall, Waterman and Webb 
met at the Senior Recitation Room. 

An hour or two was spent here in social conversation, 
full of pleasant reminiscences of the past. 

Taking the respective seats where we sat during Senior 
year, it required but the closing of the eye to carry us back 
over the last twenty years, and to restore and re-animate the 
vanished past. 

For the time we were boys again, and all, without a " screw" 
or a " dead " to disturb, " sailed " before the astonished 
Prex., whose beaming face and approving nod were instantly 
and distinctly visible to the mental sight. 

At the close of this pleasant reunion the propriety of a 
somewhat formal organization being suggested, Webb was 
chosen Chairman, and Waterman, Secretary. We then 



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adjourned to meet the next day at the Tontine, to hear such 
reports as had been prepared, and to compare notes with each 
other and such additional classmates as should then have 
arrived. 

Accordingly we met on Wednesday, A. M., August 1st, at 
the Tontine. To our great regret no other members of the 
class were present. A very comfortable breakfast was 
prepared for us, and several hours were spent in hearing of 
the personal history of the different members of the class, 
as contained in the Secretary's record, and such other in- 
formation as was elicited at the time from those who could 
give it, touching the absent ones. The report and all the 
other information then gathered, are embraced in the more 
complete record given hereafter. 



Earnest efforts were made by several members of the 
class to have a full attendance at our meeting in 1871, a 
round quarter of a century having passed since our gradua- 
tion, and letters urging classmates to report themselves in 
person, if possible, at this meeting, were sent to all within 
the realm. 

Only eight, however, of the illustrious thirty-four, respond- 
ed in person, viz : Jackson, Orr, Perry, Pickard, Rice, Sewall, 
Waterman and Webb. An informal meeting was held at 
the Junior Recitation Room, Tuesday afternoon, July 11th, 
mutual congratulations exchanged, old times, scenes and 
incidents of College life talked over, and youth for the time 
renewed. It was then voted to meet and dine at the Tontine 
on the following day at 12 m. 

On Wednesday, 12th July, after bearing our share of the 
"heat and burden of the day," incident to the forming of 
the procession in front of the Chapel and the march to the 



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church, (it was surprising to us all to find how near the 
dignitaries of the College the place of the class of 1846 
was) we entered that now somewhat venerable edifice and 
took our appropriate seats. 

Our number had decreased by one since Tuesday, Dr. 
Jackson having, by reason of a professional engagement of 
an important and very delicate nature, been obliged to 
leave us. He left a representative, however, in the person 
of his second son, a lad of sixteen, whom, with Perry's boy, a 
year or two younger, we impressed on our way to the 
church and took with us as worthy of a place among the 
best of us. They were bright, intelligent and well bred 
lads, of whom the class will expect to hear much hereafter. 
Sewall's boy, too, a strapping great fellow, a good deal taller 
than his father, was in town, but much to our regret we 
missed the pleasure of his acquaintance and society. 

Staying in the church only long enough to see that the 
old story was repeated and the " exerdtationcs'''' were fairly 
under way, we retired to the room assigned us at the 
Tontine, and soon gathered around the table. 

"Webb and Rice — -fratres venerablles — were seated at the 
ends — we could hardly say head or foot — of the table, the 
others arranged on either side, and then Ave made the most 
of our opportunity. 

The table was laden with edibles, which received due 
attention, but the clatter of knives and forks and dishes 
was hardly audible amid the constant and earnest succession 
of question and answer, and the welcome sounds of voices, 
once so familiar, but now rarely responsive to each other. 

At the proper time, our Rev. Chairman called to order : 
" conticuere omnes" and the record, as follows, was read : 



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©f f|e Class ef 1846. 



Taught a year or two after leaving College, in Rhode 
Island. He then Avent to Louisiana, where he was a private 
tutor in a gentleman's family, and at the same time pursued 

the study of law. He was admitted to the bar in , and 

settled in Montgomery, Texas. He was very successful in 
the practice of his profession. His brother writes that 
" when he died he stood at the head of the bar in Mont- 
gomery County." 

He was married in 18 . He died in 1860, of heart 
disease, at the age of thirty-eight, leaving a widow and 
several children. 

Studied architecture, and settled in Boston, following his 
profession ten years or more. About ten years ago he 
removed to Chicago, where he now lives, and, as a member 
of the firm of Brown Brothers, is engaged in manufacturing 
"prismatic sidewalk and vault lights, floor lights, &c, and 
metallic pattern letters and figures." 

He is married and has children. He writes, under date 
of July 6, 1871, " I should greatly rejoice to meet my old 
classmates at their coming re-union, but as that may not be 
this year, I will close by saying that I should be most happy 



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to have them, one and all, visit me in Chicago, where I 
wonld do all that I could to make their stay pleasant. God 
bless old Bowdoin. 

" Yours respectfully, 

" EDWIN LEE BROWN." ■ 

Qrastnj, Charles S. 

Read law ; admitted to the bar in Penobscot County in 
1849, and settled in Bangor. He had a good and lucrative 
practice, and stood high in his profession ; was County 
Attorney from 1858 to 1861 ; was in the U. S. service during 
the early part of the Avar as 1st Lieutenant of Co. A, 1st 
Maine Cavalry ; afterwards went with Lieut. Col. McClusky, 
of the 15th Maine Infantry, to New Orleans, and thence to 
Guatamala. Returned to New York, when he again entered 
the service in another cavalry regiment and served during 
the remainder of the war. Is now settled, practicing law 
in Manchester, Iowa. Is married ; has no children. 

ghamberlain, 8harl.cs M. 

Read law and was settled, and practiced his profession in 
New Orleans ; was at one time largely engaged in sugar 
planting and cotton speculation. In 1852, was whig candi- 
date for Congress from one of the Louisiana districts, but 
was not elected. In 1853, he went to San Francisco, Cal., 
and practiced law there for several years ; was elected Judge 
of the District Court of California, and held the office one 
term. 

In 1862 he went to Nevada to attend to some professional 
business, and died there, at Virginia City, of apoplexy, Sept. 
14, (1862). He was married in 1850, and his widow and 
three daughters survive him. 



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Bsane, Frederick $>. 

Taught one year ; then commenced the study of law, 
which he continued up to the fall of 1849. He then went 
to California, where he spent several years mining. Re- 
turned to Maine in 1852, finished his professional studies and 
was admitted to the bar in 1853, though he did not com- 
mence practice. In 1854, he returned again to California, 
and remained there until Aug., 1861, when he entered the 
U. S. service as a private in the 1st Cal. Reg't of Infantry, 
but was soon commissioned 2d Lieut. Preferring, however, 
to be connected with a Maine regiment, he resigned his com- 
mission and returned to Maine. In the fall, 1863, he enlisted 
in the 30th Maine Reg't, and was soon commissioned Second 
Lieutenant. He remained in service with this regiment 
—was in the Red River expedition— at Bermuda Hundreds, 
Deep Bottom and Shenandoah Valley — till May, 1865 ; 
then in Savannah, Georgia, until mustered out in Aug., 
1865. He did his duty throughout the war as a brave and 
honorable soldier, never shrinking from danger or exposure, 
never sparing himself, and always equal to the emergencies 
in which he was placed. 

His health was seriously impaired, however, by his severe 
experience, and he never regained it. 

Longing to see California again, and hoping that his 
health might be improved by a sea voyage thither, he sailed 
from Portland in January, 1867, for San Francisco. But 
his strength was not sufficient for the voyage, and his 
disease, consumption, made such rapid progress that he 
lived but a few weeks after leaving Portland. He died at 
sea, March 16, 1867, at the age of 42. He was never married. 

Deane was an impulsive, brave and generous fellow, yet 
tender hearted and affectionate in the highest degree. His 
friendship was pure and firm, and although exceedingly 
refined and delicate in its spirit, it was true and " faithful 



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unto death." He was talented and ambitious, yet realty 
diffident and unusually sensitive. Possessing such charac- 
teristics it was often the case that he was far superior to the 
position which he held, and many times failed to receive the 
recognition and reward which he had honorably won, but 
which he would never claim, or intimate any desire for. 
Dying of disease contracted by exposure during the war, 
his life was given to his country as much as though he had 
fallen on the field or died of wounds received in battle ; and 
it was a sacrifice made deliberately, and because he believed 
he could do some service to the cause to which he was most 
thoroughly devoted. But he has passed on before us, and 
" after life's fitful fever, he sleeps well." Requiescat in pace. 

Bimlap, Shades ^. if. 

Studied medicine and practiced in several places ; was a 
Volunteer Surgeon during the war; at one time Post Surgeon 
at Fort Union, New Mexico. Is unmarried, and now living 
in New York. 



Ellis, Uszvh W. 

Studied medicine ; took his degree at Jefferson Medical 
College in 1849, and settled at Augusta ; was very skilful 
and successful in his practice, and had he lived would 
undoubtedly have become eminent in his profession. He 
died March 7, 1862, of consumption, of which he had pre- 
monitions even while in college. A widow, and son now 
fourteen years of age, survive him. 

His friend, Dr. Hill, with whom he studied medicine and 
surgery, says: "Dr. Ellis was a man of no ordinary mental 
capacity ; he possessed a keen analyzing intellect, discrim- 
inating judgment in all matters, especially those pertaining 
to his profession. As a critic in general literature he rarely 



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met his equal : as a satirist he had no superior. Socially, 
Dr. Ellis was kind, affectionate and firm in his attachment 
to friends, a man of sterling integrity. Sometime before 
his death, he became an interested member of the Episcopal 
Church." 

To those of us who remember " Joe Ellis's " musical 
talents, the following statement of Dr. Hill will need 
no special confirmation. He says : " We were riding in 
the country one day, when all at once he made a terrible 
noise. I asked, ' Dr. what is the matter with you ? ' He 
replied, ' I was singing ; don't you understand ? ' I said, ' I 
am glad you told me, I thought j^ou were dying ! ' 



Erosjtsxw, Ghaii.es Iff. 

Read law and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1849 ; 
practiced there two years and in We} r mouth one year. In 
1852, abandoned the law and commenced the study of 
theology at Aridover, Massachusetts, where he remained as 
a privileged student about one year. Then preached and 
did duty as a home missionary in Washington and Oxford 
Counties, Maine. In 1857, was ordained pastor of the 
Congregational Church in Springfield, Maine, residing there 
one year, and at Lee thirteen years, preaching alternately 
in those two towns. Is now living in South Dover, Maine, 
though he continues pastor of the church at Springfield and 
Carroll. Was married in 1858, and has four children. 

He has devoted himself with great fidelity to his ministerial 
duties, and by his own personal efforts has built two Con- 
gregational meeting-houses ; one, costing $1,500, at Spring- 
field, the other, costing about $5,000, at Lee. 

He writes in June, 1871, that he expects to be absent from 
the State during the remainder of the summer. " I have 
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never lest my interest in any of the class, and all I hear of 
their prosperity affords me great pleasure. If I have never 
met with them since my graduation it is not for want of 
interest in them and regard for them. There is not one of 
them whom it would not give me great pleasure to meet. 
No one would enter more heartily into the coming re-union 
of the class than I should." 



Fagrj, lixhn S. If . 

Studied medicine, took his degree of M. D. at Harvard 
in 1850 and settled at South Boston, where he still remains, 
having a large, successful and profitable business. 

He was married in 1850. His wife died in March, 1871. 
Has had three children, all boys, two of whom have died ; 
one at the age of about two years, the other at thirteen and 
a half. The latter was nearly fitted for College. His only 
surviving child is just entering his junior year, at Harvard. 



Jfiuxscam, lames W. 

Taught a few months in Portland, then went to Saco 
and took charge of Thornton Academy. He was just 
getting well established in his new position, when a sudden 
and very violent attack of dysentery proved fatal, and after 
a brief sickness, he died on the 22d day of August, 1847. 
He was the youngest member of the class, and the first one 
removed by death. 

A few months after his death, at the request of many of 
the class, Talbot prepared an obituary notice of Hanscom, 
which was published in the Portland Advertiser, and copied 
from that into some other papers. It was a truthful sketch, 



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a just analysis of the character, mental and moral, and a 
beautiful tribute of friendship to the memory of the deceased. 

The following passages from a letter, dated Sept. 14, 
1847, written by the late Hon. Charles S. Daveis to Talbot, 
show what an impression, youth as he was, Hanscom had 
made upon this eminent lawyer, accomplished scholar and 
courteous gentleman. " I received, with much interest, 
the information that you are preparing an obituary notice 
of your singularly gifted and amiable classmate, Hanscom, 
and I cannot but most readily consent to the use you desire 
to make of any portion of my letter to Mr. P. that you 
view as expressive of his worth, or calculated to give any 
just idea of the impression he produced by his performance 
at Commencement. In the part you quote, I recollect 
intending to convey and mark the practical antithesis between 
his theory and the actual distinction which he gained on the 
occasion of asserting it so eloquently and pathetically. It 
is a performance which will be ever associated in my mind 
with the beautiful classical idea of the Dying Gladiator. 

" I soon made myself acquainted with Hanscom, and I 
became exceedingly interested in his character. I recollect 
making some inquiry of him as to his future purpose in life, 
and I perceived that he had some ideal which he did not 
desire to disclose. What it was, further than that it seemed 
something of 

" ' That spur which the pure spirit doth raise,'' 

I could not divine, and I did not seek to penetrate. 

" He was certainly a rare and admirable spirit, and the 
more I knew of him, while here, an assistant in the High 
School, the more I became charmed with him. * * * 

" He was one to whom the sons of Bowdoin may be more 
than proud to claim the brotherhood, and whose memory 
Alma Mater will not cease to cherish." 



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Haskell, Jtxhn. 

Taught one year after leaving College. Studied theology 
at Bangor, completing the regular course in 1850. Was 
settled the same year over a Congregational Church in 
Dover, Mass., and continued there eight years. In 1858, 
he was settled at Raynham, Mass., where he remained six 
years. Was three years in charge of a church in North 
Chelsea, and thence removed to Lisbon, Conn., his present 
residence. 

He was married in 1851. He says : " Though we have 
not had any children of our own we have been entrusted 
with the care and oversight of somebody's children most of 
the time since the date of our marriage." He closes his 
letter of June 1871, thus : " The unwritten history, after all, 
is the most important. ' Men die, but institutions live.' 
May our institution be a perpetual blessing to the coming 
generations." 



If alt, Stephen £.. 

Studied theology and settled at Milton, Vermont, in 1850. 
On account of failing health he was compelled to relinquish 
his chosen profession, though most reluctantly, and in 1852, 
removed to Winchester, Mass. Shortly after engaged in 
commercial business, in which, finding his health gradually 
improving, he has continued to the present time. 

He was married in 1850 ; has had six children, of whom 
three are now living. Henry Cutter Holt, our class boy, 
was, when eleven years old, thrown from a carriage and 
received a fatal injury. His father says he was " a child of 
unusual promise, and had he lived might have become an 
illustrious son of Bowdoin." 



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lac&san, William W. 

Studied medicine ; graduated at Jefferson Medical College, 
Philadelphia, in 1849, and commenced practice in Gardiner, 
Maine. In 1853, removed to (then) Roxbuiy, Mass., where 
he is still, in very successful and profitable practice of his 
profession. 

He was married in 1850 ; and has three children, all boys. 
His eldest is eighteen years old, and graduated at the Boston 
High School on the day of this class meeting. His second 
boy is nearly fitted for college ; he was with his father at 
Commencement this year (1871). 

Kmght, Franklm 1*. 

Taught for some years. Was " Sanct. Tim. Marise Terras 
Lingg. Prof.," so the catalogue describes his professorship. 
In 1859, having previously been engaged for some years in 
ministerial work in Maryland, he had a call to New Jersey, 
where he remained until 1866 ; then went to Tennessee and 
was placed, by Bishop Quintard, at the head of his Diocesan 
Training and Theological School. He remained in Tennes- 
see three or four years, then came to Washington, D. C, 
where he is now minister and teacher. 

In 185 he was made D. D. by Maryland's most venerable 
College. 

Was married in 1851, and his wife has, as he says, fulfilled 
to him " all that Madam Juno promised to Mr. tEoIus, 
when she wanted him to raise the wind, 

" ' Omnes ut tecum * * * * annos, 
' Exigat, et puhhra facial te prole parenlem.' 

Five sons and two daughters, if they were not precisely a 
reward pro meritis talibus, as tEoIus', have, nevertheless, 
made it quite essential for me to be always ' raising the 
wind ! ' " One of his sons is in business, and one just 
completing his freshman year in College. 



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He says further, " Tell classmates that, although I cannot 
meet with them face to face, I will exchange photographs 
with any, and would like to with all. To all classmates, 
my kindest regards and best wishes." 

Bicllen, Scarce F. 

Studied medicine and graduated at Medical College in 
Philadelphia. In 1851 or 1852 went to Mississippi, and 
settled first at Yazoo City, where he had a large practice. 
Afterward, removed to Satartia, Miss., in which place he 
now resides, and where he has been in the constant practice 
of his profession, except when absent for a time in Central 
America, and again during the war. 

He was married in 1852. His wife died in less than two 
years afterward, leaving no children. He has never married 
again. 

In answer to a letter containing a notice of our proposed 
class-meeting, he wrote under date of July 1, 1871, enclosed 
his photograph, gave some of the foregoing items of personal 
history, and closed thus : " Extend to each and every member 
present, my cordial greetings, and my regrets that I cannot 
again grasp them by the hand. As I run my eye through 
my album, and note each classmate's name, nothing but 
the kindest feelings towards each and every one remain." 



■SteriU, Bxmatus. 

Taught, then studied theology and preached awhile in 
Maine. Afterward went West and was settled as a Congre- 
gational minister at Bunker Hill, Macoupin Co., 111. 

He died at Woodburn, 111., July 18, 1853, at the age of 
29. 

He was married before leaving Maine, and his widow 
survives him. 



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Hatisc, Biases &. 

Has been engaged in teaching most of the time since 
graduating. Did a little farming, then studied law. Was 
admitted to the bar, in Boston, eight years ago, and is there 
now. Has been married twice, and has two children, both 
members of the Boston Latin School. 

He writes, " I had better success in teaching than in any 
other occupation, and might have continued it longer had 
my health allowed. I can say, in whatever I have under- 
taken, with the author of the History of Civilization, ' Je 
suis profondement touche ! ' " 

Bvv, jptemiij. 

Read law at Alfred, Me., and settled in Brunswick, where 
he was for ten years Judge of the Municipal Court. Is 
now in practice there. Has never married, and is supposed 
now to be utterly callous and insensible to the darts 
which the mischievous god has shot so successfully at every 
other member of the class. 



@s00ad r WiUiam. 

Studied medicine and settled at North Yarmouth, where 
he now lives. He has had, and still has, an extensive 
practice, and is a very successful and popular physician. 
Was married in 1860. Has two children, both boys. He 
counted on attending our meeting, but was doubtless pre- 
vented by some professional duty. 

Read law and commenced practice in Andover, Mass. 
In 1851, removed to Salem, where he has remained in the 



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practice of his profession, having a large and profitable 
business. 

His life has been wholly professional and laborious, but 
his devotion to the "jealous mistress " has been rewarded 
with honor and substance.* 

He was married in 1854. Has two children, a son and & 
daughter. The son, who was with his father at our meeting, 
is nearly fitted to enter College, and is probably to be a 
Bowdoin boy. 

Taught two years. Then went to Bangor Theological 
Seminary, where he remained four years, and thence to 
Jacksonville, 111., in 1852. In 1856 removed to Madison, 
Wis., and was in 1858 elected Professor of modern languages 
in the University of Wisconsin. In 1860, he abandoned 
teaching for a time and was about five years engaged in 
Life Insurance business. 

In 1865, returned to the University, Wisconsin, and 
remained there two years. He went thence to Beloit, Wis., 
and thence to Chicago, 111. Is now principal of the High 
School in Milwaukee. 

Was married in 1853 ; has five children, three boys and 
two girls. 

He still holds a high rank as a scholar, and is regarded as 
an unusually thorough and successful teacher. 

As we should have expected, in every position which he 
has occupied he has been very popular and surrounded 
himself with friends. 



* Little, Brown & Co. have just issued a valuable work, entitled " A Treatise 
on tlie Law of Trusts and Trustees," by Jairus Ware Perry. A writer in the 
Boston Daily Advertiser says of this work, " Mr. Perry may point to it with 
pride, as constituting an achievement which, if lie should never do anything 
else, would alone render his life useful as well as honorable. 



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It is pleasant, too, to learn that while, during these twenty- 
five years, he has neglected neither mind nor body (he 
weighs over two hundred), he has made such ample pro- 
vision for that " rainy day " which we all think may come to 
us, that a long storm even, will not be likely to disturb him. 

Read law and commenced practice in Portland, where 
he remained until 1855. Was then appointed Secretary 
of the American Legation, Russia. At the expiration of 
his term entered into business relations with Messrs. Winans 
and als., at St. Petersburg, which have continued to the 
present time. He is now living in London, England. Was 
married in 1858. Has three children, a girl and two boys. 

In 1865, the honor of Knighthood was conferred upon him 
by the Emperor of Russia, and he has recently been elected 
member of the Royal Geographical Society of London. 

He writes, under date of June, 1871 : " I send my 
most cordial and brotherly and affectionate greeting and 
good wishes to our old comrades, and will think of their 
re-union with a hearty wish to be with them, and to sympa- 
thize in their honest attachments to our fellowship, aspira- 
tions and early born experience while life was young and 
ambition reasonable at our Alma Mater. * * I hope 
I have not disgraced my class or our State, though I have 
not made a great figure in the world, and don't expect to do 
anything more of importance, having arrived at the time 
for going down hill. You can tell them I am as I was in 
College, a Bohemian, without capacity or inclination to 
fathom or profit by the more serious aspects of life, but 
have made friends generally where I have been, and on the 
whole have been happy — if not good. I am a thorough 
conservative ; hate railroads ; prefer the English constitu- 
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tion and customs as embodied in our own ; think Latin and 
Greek of more importance than the modern languages, and 
hate cant and humbug. Perhaps we shall have some boys 
at Bowdoin as we used to anticipate, and anyhow shall wish 
to see a high standard of culture maintained at the College. 
For one, I vote for sticking to classical studies as much as 
possible, and if I come back to Maine intend to range 
myself with the advocates of Greek and Latin, and of freedom 
from sectarian control of the College. ***** 
With best wishes for the prosperity and happiness of all our 
classmates and their families and old Bowdoin, 
" I remain your affectionate brother, 

"JOSIAH PIERCE." 

pec, William W. 

After teaching four years, read law and settled at Wor- 
cester, Mass. ; was Judge of Police Court in 1855 ; Judge of 
Court of Insolvency in 1857 ; Mayor of Worcester in 1860 ; 
has been District Attorney since 1869, and is now in the 
successful practice of his profession, with flattering prospects 
politically, professionally and pecuniarily. 

He was married in 1855. His wife died in 1862, leaving 
him two children, only one of whom is now living. 

Sswalt, Frederick B. 

Read law, was admitted to the bar in 1810, and practiced 
his profession at Bath, until 1861. Then entered the U. S. 
service as Assistant Adjutant General, on General Howard's 
Staff. Was in the battle of Fair Oaks, June, 1862. Com- 
missioned Colonel of the 19th Maine, July, 1862 ; transferred 
to the Veteran Reserve Corps. For a time in service as 
Brevet Brigadier General, Acting Inspector General, &c. 
Is now Supervisor of Internal Revenue, on duty with 



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Commissioner. Was married in 1849. Has had three 
children. Two of them are living ; a son, Joseph Ellis 
Sewall, a lad of sixteen years of age r who was at Com- 
mencement with his father, and a daughter, twelve years 
of age. 



Settled in Portland. Engaged in mercantile pursuits, 
which he has continued most of the time since leaving 
College. Is now Treasurer of the Portland Water Co. 
Was married in 1849. Has had three children, all daugh- 
ters, two of them twins. But two of his children are living. 



Srwxw, Benjamin &. 

" Good old Snow." Taught school, and studied theology 
at Bangor. Was married in 1851. Soon after went as 
missionary to the Micronesian Islands, among which he and 
his most estimable wife have spent the past seventeen years 
in missionary labor. Made a brief visit to his old home in 
1870. His wife and two children, a boy and girl, came 
some months before. Leaving the children at school, in 
Newton, Mass., Snow and his wife returned to their mission- 
ary work in the summer of 1871. His life has been a 
self denying and self sacrificing one ; and no one on Bowdoin's 
" Roll of Honor " has shown more true courage, fidelity 
and real heroism than he has, " a voluntary exile from 
country and kindred, that in the name of Jesus and for His 
sake, he might carry forward the work so prosperously 
conducted thus far by his wife and himself in the remote 
islands of the Pacific. He has reduced the language of 
some of those islanders to writing, and, for their good, spent 
years in. a laborious and successful effort to translate some 



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portions of the Holy Scriptures into it, that they may have 
the word of life." 

Some of the class were so fortunate as to meet him, to 
feel the grasp of his honest hand, to enjoy his society again 
for a few hours, and to receive his cheerful and hearty 
benediction. 



South worth, Ifersz. 

After teaching a while, he commenced the study of 
theology at Bangor Theological Seminary, and pursued his 
studies afterward with Rev. David Thurston, at Winthrop, 
Me. He was licensed to preach in the fall of 1848. Not long 
after this he went south, partly to try the effect of the 
climate upon his health, and for some months traveled and 
preached to destitute churches in East Tennessee and West 
Georgia. His health had very much improved while thus 
engaged, and he was already favorably spoken of in con- 
nection with the Professorship of Mathematics in the 
University of Tennessee ; but on the 14th of June, 1849, 
while on his journey from Gallatin, Tennessee, towards 
Springfield in the same State, he was suddenly and very 
violently attacked with cholera, which was prevailing at 
Gallatin. His traveling companion, a young man, got him 
into the nearest house, but the family all fled. A physician 
was sent for and visited him twice, but could not save his 
life. He died at three o'clock on the morning of June 15, 
1849, at the age of twenty-seven. 

It may be properly added, that he is remembered by his 
classmates with great respect, on account of both mental 
and moral excellences. His fondness for mathematics 
amounted to almost a passion, and in that branch he had 
no superior, if equal, in the class ; while his readiness to 
assist others made his knowledge of very great service to 



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some whose distaste for such studies was fully equal to his 
enthusiastic love of them. 



Read law and settled in Deer Isle ; was member of Maine 
Legislature and Speaker of the House in 1857 ; now County- 
Attorney of Hancock County.- Is married and has children. 

Tatbat, Thomas 3|. 

Taught some years and read law ; settled and engaged in 
practice in Portland. In 1862 entered U. S. service as 
Lieutenant Colonel of the 18th Maine, afterwards 1st Maine 
Heavy Artillery Regiment, stationed some time near Wash- 
ington, then transferred to the Army of the Potomac. He 
participated in the great battles under Grant in the spring 
and summer of 1861. In Sept., 1864, was honorably dis- 
charged for disability ; was commissioned Colonel, but did 
not serve in that capacity. Same year entered the civil 
service in the Executive Departments, at Washington, and in 
1869 was appointed Assistant Attorney General of the U.S., 
which office he now holds.* He was married in 1862, to the 
sister of his College chum, Geo. N. Richardson. Has no 
children. 

Tfrmtttttm, lames B. 

Studied theology at Bangor, and East Windsor, Conn. 
Professional life spent in Scarboro, Me., Somersworth, N. 
H., St. John, N. B. and Milford, Mass. He married in 
1851f and has had five children, of whom two, a boy aged 



* Has since removed to Boston, and resumed the practice of law. 
tl grieve to amend this record, by adding that Mrs. Thornton died at 
Scarboro, in January, 1872. J. A. W. 



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nine and a girl five, are now living. He wrote in June, 1871, 
"I hope to be present at the meeting of the class of '46, to 
learn the record of the quarter century, as written in the 
lives of my fellow students, but with little expectation of 
solving the grandest mystery, viz: the whereabouts of the 
same quarter-century-time. One passage of Holy Writ 
has never, I believe, been disputed. ' Our lives are even 
as a vapor.' With none but pleasant remembrances, 
" Yours most truly, 

"JAMES B. THORNTON, JR." 



l#pham, gcurgc B. 

Studied medicine. Opened an apothecary shop in Bruns- 
wick, where he remained until 18 — . Then removed to 
Yonkers, N. Y., where he is supposed to be now. He is 
reported as having a large and successful practice as a 
physician. Married and has several children, among them a 
boy nearly ready for College. 

Watematt, John $.. 

Taught and read law until fall of 1849. Was then 
admitted to the bar and settled in Gorham, where he still 
remains in the practice of his profession. 

Was County Treasurer two years. Has been Judge of 
Probate since 1863. 

Married in 1853, and has four children, three girls and 
one boy, now living. 

Wifok, Edwin B. 

Taught at Bath about a year ; then studied theology at 
Bangor and Princeton Seminaries. In 1850, was settled as 



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successor to Rev. Dr. Tappan, in Augusta, Me., where lie 
remained until 1860. He then removed to Boston, and was 
installed pastor of the Shawmut Church, where he now is. 
Has worked hard and been a faithful and successful pastor 
and preacher. 

He is a D. D., and his rank is high among the distinguished 
Congregational ministers of Massachusetts. 

Was married in 1852 and has three children, all daughters ; 
two of them twins. 



Wttherbse, Samuel I. 

Studied theology at Bangor. Left there in 1850. After- 
ward — it is not known just when — he went to Delaware 
and taught probably about two years. Died in Delaware in 
June, 1862. His wife died two years before. They left two 
children, a son and daughter. 



And so ended the record. 

After sundry good resolutions and pledges as to future 
meetings, and with 

" A sigh for the departed 

Whose sun of life has set ; 
A health to the true hearted, 
Who linger with us yet." 

we adjourned, to meet again in 1876, and as many times 
before that as possible. 

Before separating, it was 



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" Voted, That the Secretary be requested to have the 
class record printed, and a copy sent to each member of 
the class whose address can be ascertained ; and also to 
each of the families of our deceased classmates." 

E. B. WEBB, Chairman. 

JOHN A. WATERMAN, Secretary, 






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APPENDIX. 



The following is the obituary notice of Hanscom, referred 
to on page 18. 

As it seemed especially worthy of a permanent place in 
our class record, and its re-appearance would doubtless be 
very gratifying to many friends of our deceased classmate, 
after consultation with several members of the class, it has 
been thought best to publish the article here in full. 

[For the Portland Advertiser.] 

Me. Editor : — I have lately seen announced in your 
paper, the death of James W. Hanscom, a graduate of 
Bowdoin College, of last year. Being intimate with the 
deceased while in College, you will gratify my own feelings 
and those of affectionate friends, who there knew and 
loved him, by permitting me, through the columns of your 
paper, to say publicly, since his departure has made such 
expressions proper, a few words of him we so highly es- 
teemed. 

Among the mass of his fellow students, he was most 
known as a scholar. Retiring and modest, neither ambitious 
of leading nor desirous of display, he had none of that 
notoriety of character, which often distinguishes more out- 
ward men and which is so easily acquired in the transactions 
of College life. To use a figure from his own Commence- 
ment oration, he was more like the iron bolts, the tough 
timbers and gnarled knees, which make the strength and 
substance of the staunch ship, than like the paint and 
pennants, which constitute her adornment. 

But as a scholar his knowledge was too thorough to 

permit him to remain without reputation. Although among 

the youngest of his class, he stood at its head. He attained 

this position by the use of no factitious means, by no skill 

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in concealing his ignorance. Nor did he have the advantage, 
— so unwisely overestimated — of great fluency, to enable 
him smoothly to express a half formed idea. He had to 
know before he could recite, and his knowledge was gained 
by an earnest devotion to each branch of his studies. Nor 
did he exhaust himself in efforts of mere acquisition. He 
was marked by that accuracy, which seldom arises save 
from deep reflection ; he possessed a knowledge of the 
relation between fact and truth, which belongs only to the 
original thinker. What he acquired, he could not only 
repeat, but he knew its meaning, and each acquisition 
enlarged his power of thought. 

His youth and circumstances had not indeed permitted 
him to attain that univeral cultivation, which makes the 
ripe scholar ; but this ideal was ever before him, — its real- 
ization was the object of his unceasing efforts. In one of 
his letters of last winter he thus wrote : " I feel sadly 
deficient in historical knowledge, and have long felt so. 
The fault is not mine, — it must have been so ; but it is 
mine to supply the deficiency by patient labor — little by 
little." Thus severely did he apply himself to his scholar's 
work. 

High as was his character as a scholar, it was not this 
that most endeared him to his friends. With a clear intel- 
lect, he also possessed a true heart. A conscientious probity 
and high honor characterized his performance of common 
duties, his discharge of ordinary obligations. He was gentle 
and generous towards the faults of others, — never led by 
envy to detract from their merits. Ever engaged in some 
portion of his plan of self improvement, turning from one 
study to find recreation in another, he was animated in 
his industry by a spirit of constant cheerfulness. Yet 
enthusiastic as he was, he did not meditate solely on his 
own cultivation, but entered with interest into the wishes 
and designs of others, giving from his own hopeful heart 
words of encouragement and sympathy. His conversation 
was often enlivened by a quiet playfulness, a gentle spirit 
of humor, which added to his attractions as an associate. 
His pure life and large affections impelled him to enter 
fully into the fine relations of friendship, and enabled him to 
sustain its high offices and appreciate its elevating pleasures. 

Though young and earnest, he was much marked, in his 
opinions and actions, by deliberation. Not unduly influ- 
enced by other minds, his opinions were chiefly the result 
of his own reflections. Not easily moved by external events, 



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his actions were decided by a thoughtful independence. In 
all his communications with his fellow students and instruct- 
ors, he was frank and manly. These high qualities were 
supported by great firmness. 

He was cheerful and happy, because existence wore to 
his eye a hue of glory. It was not given him, that he 
might outstrip his competitors — that his exertions might 
earn applause ; this he seemed to know. He seemed to 
feel that it was given him, that the pure passions and noble 
powers implanted within him might have full development 
— that continually he might enjoy the new opening of the 
flowers of truth in the garden of goodness. 

His ardent longings for intellectual culture were ac- 
companied with earnest desires for spiritual growth. His 
conversation and letters gave plain tokens that early religious 
instruction had sunk deep into a faithful heart. To an 
intimate friend, he wrote the following : " While we are 
on this subject, let me tell you what has always been my 
belief in respect to life and its pursuits — what nevertheless 
may sound strange from such a source. It seems to me 
that one phantom after another may occupy our attention, 
• — that our young days may pass away in folly and glee, — 
that we may be happy ; but that notwithstanding all this, 
the time will come (as the spring and summer of life 
succeed each other), when all these will seem holloAv, — 
when the soul will long (as it does at times even now) for 
something higher and deeper, broader and longer than 
anything earthly can present ; that this longing can only 
be satisfied with God as Creator, Father and Saviour, 
omnipresent, merciful, full of love and of every perfection 
the human soul can conceive or long for. Such has ever 
been my speculative belief." 

It was a feeling of true humility that led him to call this 
deep sentiment his "speculative belief." In his last hours 
his soul's longings were satisfied ; he did not have to wait 
for the blossoms of life's spring to wither and the fruit of 
its summer to fall, before he found God. In the early 
spring, ere yet the buds had burst, his spirit rested in his 
Creator. His religious feelings, long cherished, were then 
fully developed. He was standing by the door of the king- 
dom of Heaven : he knocked and it was opened unto him. 

Dying during his twentieth year, his life Avas of course 
spent in receiving, rather than imparting knowledge. He 
was a student, rather than a writer. But his creative 
genius had already begun to unfold itself. Most beautifully 



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was it developed in his part performed when he graduated. 
He attacked the ranking system of College, which, by the 
distinct designation given to the Commencement parts, and 
by the assignment, proclaimed publicly the relative standing 
as scholars, of the students of the graduating class. Stand- 
ing at the head of his class, highly honored by this system, 
his condemnation of it was not the reflection of any selfish 
disappointment, but rather a generous plea for those who 
were less gifted or less diligent than himself. 

It was no easy task, for one so young boldly to criticise 
the deliberate action of the legislation of the College, and 
avoid the appearance of presumption. Yet, so modest were 
his manners, so sincere seemed his expression, that he 
captivated those even whose policy he condemned. A 
member of one of the boards, in a letter written long after, 
when the first favorable impression might be supposed to 
have been effaced, thus speaks : " His performance was one 
that bore the bell at Commencement, although it was one in 
which he defended a position in which the boards certainly 
do not coincide, adverse to the system of College distinctions. 
This, however, he did with so much eloquence and feeling, 
as to carry all hearts with him, and to secure for himself a 
distinction second to no one, in the impression he produced." 

There was a simplicity in his writings which marks the 
genius : it was a simplicity deeper than the mere form of 
expression. His mind sought to fashion in itself no new 
thoughts according to its own arbitrary wishes. It rather 
opened itself to reception ,of abiding truth, sought for it in 
books, sought for it in human hearts, strove to know it in 
his own feelings, to utter it in his writings. Hence came 
an earnestness, a reality in his compositions, Avhich does not 
always mark the style of College students. He expressed 
his thoughts clearly, without affectation, without that vague- 
ness, which seeks to supply the want of definite ideas by the 
profusion of pretty words. His compositions always bore a 
strong impress of originality. 

Without wealthy friends to pay the expenses of his 
education, he was involved in debt when he graduated. 
To discharge this debt, was the object of his first exertions 
after leaving College. A situation as an assistant instructor 
in one of the high schools of Portland was offered to him 
immediately after Commencement. This situation he ac- 
cepted, and remained in that city through the fall and 
winter. In the spring he took charge, as principal, of 
Thornton Academy, at Saco, in which situation he continued 



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until his death, in August. With the particulars of his 
success as an instructor, I am not acquainted ; but I know 
that his duties were sacred to him, and that he gave to their 
performance that patient deliberation, that minute attention 
and conscientious industry, which mark the man who strives 
to do everything well. His departure from Portland was 
regretted by those having the oversight of the school in 
which he instructed. The young ladies under his tuition, 
at Saco, were, at the close of his first term, preparing to 
offer to him some testimonial of their affection for their 
teacher. 

His devotion to his duties as an instructor did not hinder 
his work of self culture. His own education went steadily 
on. The years spent in the discharge of his pecuniary 
obligations would have added largely to his intellectual 
wealth. It was his purpose, only confidentially spoken of, 
yet always expressed with that quiet calmness which be- 
tokens true energy, to spend some of the next few years in 
Europe, to become acquainted with the nations, German, 
French, Italian and Spanish, whose languages he was ar- 
dently endeavoring to master, to add to his accomplishments 
as a scholar by a knowledge of the men, the books and the 
institutions of that continent, and by a thorough course of 
study to fit himself for the profession of medicine, towards 
which his tastes led him. Men thus single-hearted in their 
devotion to literature live not for themselves alone, — they 
labor for others. Their lives dawn full of promise to the 
many : their early deaths cause sorrow beyond the circle of 
family or friendship. 

Less than a year after he graduated, his body sank in 
death. He whose purpose in this life was to be a "True 
Scholar and a True Man" passed from this earth. The 
intimate friends of his College life, who this year met at 
Commencement, met to learn and lament his departure. 
Sharing a common affliction, they unite in this offering of 
affection to his memory. They mourn over the loss of a 
gifted and generous companion, a pure and lovely friend. 
Far deeper must be their grief from whose side has been 
taken a brother or a son. Their long cherished hopes are 
suddenly cut off. Their affections miss their wonted object : 
thoughts of their love remind them of their loss, and the 
channel where once their fondness flowed freely has now 
become filled with tears. Yet his peaceful death has been 
full of consolation to all whom it has afflicted. They can 
feel that another link now binds them to the spiritual world. 



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